Skoda Fabia S2000 (2012 Czech Rally - Juho Hänninen / Mikko Markkula) - 1/24 Belkits (1)

To be honest I'm not a big follower of rally races, but when I come along interesting kits, I can't just let them pass! Besides it's good to see models kits of other cars being made. Afterall most European model cars we get are Lamborghinis and Ferraris (Occasionally Mercedes, Porsches and BMWs.....)

The Skoda Fabia S2000 kit was released in late 2015. Took me about 3 months to finish, it was quite a straight forward built this time. The kit itself was detailed enough, and come with photo etch parts.

Starting off with the interior. The doors are made of carbon fibre, so I try to apply carbon fibre decal on the doors. For me it's like doing a practice, I know I'll come across alot of cabon fibre decals when I build F1 kits later, besides even if I failed here, it's on the inside of the car, behind a roll cage. Hardly noticeable...

Good thing it turned out better than expected. First cut out the approximate area of decal, then apply it and let it wrap around the edges. Once dried (give it a day or so), use a blade to trim the edges off, and the parts without decal (the door handle, and the part below)

Next the seats. If I remembered correctly, the seat belts are 2mm red ribbons. I set the photo etch part in place with a bit of white glue. Once that's done I glue the seat belts in place.

The spare tyres. The instruction shows how you should tie the belt, but I find it too small to work with so I simplified it, looks close enough.

Putting the interior together, with the chassis.

I added a few more carbon fibre decal on the driver's side. The pattern is a bit bigger than I expected, but it'll be hard to see once the body is on. 

I'll leave painting for the next post.

Fiat Abarth 500 - 1/20 Fujimi (Completed)

Since I'm in the middle of moving, I just did a few quick shots with my phone. If they look good enough here I guess that's the way to go in the future. Saves time setting up photo booth and camera.

 Now that I put all the parts together, I can help but notice how bad the bumpers are aligned with the body, the rear is especially worse....

The interior, glad I did the knobs on the panel. 

I applied the decal onto the photo etch parts, works quite well.  

The kit also include this box....it's suppose to come with the real car, but I'm not sure.....any Abarth owners know?

Overall this is a straight forward built. One note to self: next time it's better to fit the bumpers to the body first, and modify the base to fit.